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Tag: Corporate Governance

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The SEC’s Five Deregulatory Moves in September

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When the morning air gets brisk and the calendar turns to September, we can rely on certain rites of fall: pumpkin spice anything, football season, and a flurry of enforcement activity at the SEC. But this year, something’s different. Inste...

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Five Compliance Lessons From the NBA’s Penalty Against the Los Angeles Clippers

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Most corporate governance failures surface slowly and in pieces. A restatement here, a derivative suit there, an 8-K that raises more questions than it answers. However, every so often one arrives fully assembled, with a public findings rep...

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Return to Sender: The DOJ Withdraws a Decades-Old Letter to a Proxy Advisor

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For nearly four decades, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) held a piece of paper most public companies would envy: a 1987 business review letter from the U.S. Department of Justice saying the government had no plans to challenge its...

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Look, No Hands: The 2026 Proxy Season After the SEC’s No-Action Pullback

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When the 2026 proxy season opened, corporate secretaries braced for the usual scramble over which shareholder proposals had to appear on the ballot and which could be left off. What most of them no longer had was the referee they had leaned...

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SpaceX Goes Where No Issuer Has Gone Before

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Elon Musk has never had much patience for corporate governance conventions, and SpaceX’s anticipated IPO only underlines the point. According to a Reuters report, SpaceX’s bylaws would require shareholders to “irrevocably and unconditionall...

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